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I highly recommend Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, an exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from April 11 through June 28, 2010. This show was made for photographers. Before entering the exhibition, one sees that HCB was quite a traveller: maps at the exhibition’s 6th floor entrance trace his routes during various trips…
I suppose it was only a matter of time. Sebastião Salgado has switched to digital. Read about it at this link. One can imagine the audience’s gasp! But his reasoning is completely understandable and is shared by many photographers. Traveling through airports with bags of film is a hassle, and the risk of damage from x-rays is…
Documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado talks about his work in this October, 2004 interview at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley (posted on YouTube in Nov. 2008): Some of the topics (and their times): ~ 37:15 Fred Ritchin talks about how Salgado interacts with people. ~ 42:00 Salgado talks about the integration of…
Photographers will enjoy Bob Edwards’ excellent recent interview with Robert Frank, which can be heard at this link. On Bob Edwards’ web site, Cristy writes of her recent interview with Robert Frank, and I found this part of the story quite interesting: He reached in his pocket and pulled out a small, snapshot film camera….
Lee Siegel makes the case for New Jersey as an epicenter of artistic talent in an essay in the Wall Street Journal: “[C]onsider a sampling of the gifted figures who have either come from Jersey or made a home there: Bruce Springsteen (N.J.’s state songbird); Frank Sinatra, Frankie Valli; Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Allen…
Photographers may be interested in this story about how a photographer made a unique image of the Presidential Inauguration on Tuesday: FIRST LOOK: New View Of The Inauguration. There is an even more detailed story about the photo here: A Never Been Done Before Gets Done at the Inauguration.
Photographers will find Annie Leibovitz’s new book, Annie Leibovitz At Work, quite interesting. In a section titled, “Ten Most-Asked Questions”, question #5 is: “Are you happy with the move from film to digital?” (p. 213). Her answer, in part, is: “You can photograph the night with digital. Darkness. I use much less light now. Less…
Richard Prince photographs other people’s photographs and presents them as his own. Last year, one of his prints sold for $3.4 million, setting the record for the most expensive photograph sold at auction. Back in 2005, one of his prints sold for $1.25 million, which set a record at that time. The Guggenheim Museum approves:…
New York magazine has an interesting article this week about unique piece of New York real estate — and it’s owned by a photographer. Read about Jay Maisel’s six-story, 72-room, 35,000-square-foot single-family home in the Bowery: “The 72-Room Bohemian Dream House“.
This is a very interesting presentation by David Griffin, the Director of Photography for National Geographic magazine: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_griffin_on_how_photography_connects.html
Sean Reid has written an insightful article titled “Yes, It Matters“. It is one of the best articles I’ve seen about the photographer’s choice of tools. The article appears on The Luminous Landscape web site, which has been a valuable resource for information about photography since the 1990′s.
David Alan Harvey is one of the great documentary photographers, a poet with a camera, famous for his books and for more than 40 essays in National Geographic. And he’s a blogger! He actually has four blogs: road trips, student work & workshops, work in progress, and family & friends. See David Alan Harvey’s blogs…
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